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Lie To My Face (2022) (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Metallica (Remastered 2021) (2021)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Tungsten Reigns is a crossover thrash band from Concord, California, formed in 2026, merging the ferocity of hardcore punk with the riff-driven aggression of classic thrash metal.
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Turbulense is a thrash metal band from Long Beach, California, formed in 2018, delivering old-school thrash aggression with a straightforward, riff-forward approach to the genre.
Turmoil is a San Francisco thrash metal band formed in 1994, carrying on the Bay Area's thrash legacy with over three decades of uncompromising riff-driven metal.
Tvsk is a stoner metal band from Alameda, California, formed in 2015, built on psychedelic-tinged heavy riffing anchored in the Bay Area's heavy underground scene.
Twenty Twelve is a death metal and grindcore band from Ontario, California, formed in 2001, delivering compact bursts of extreme aggression within the death-grind tradition of the Southern California underground.
Twice Sliced Bread is a California-based power metal band formed in 2022, delivering melodic, anthemic metal with a tongue-in-cheek name that belies a earnest approach to the genre's soaring guitars and bombastic song structures.
Twist of Fate is an Orange County, California thrash metal band formed in 2022, channeling the aggressive, riff-forward attack of the Bay Area and Southern California thrash traditions into a contemporary sound.
Twisted Form is a Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2023, adding to the long lineage of Southern California thrash with aggressive riff-driven compositions and the high-energy attack characteristic of the genre's classic era.
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